This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW:  "Should get the habit of *always* using 'list' to build commands."
-- Helmut Giese

"For those whining about money - try funding an international airfare plus
2 weeks away from home (since I have to allow for 2 days of travel either
side of the conference, plus jet-lag recovery time)." -- Steve Ball


    Edsger Dikjstra completes his final computation.
	http://www.lwn.net/Articles/6954/

    How does Tk get a color by name, such as "darkblue"? Joe English
    provides an explanation of how Tk does it under X11, Windows, and
    Macintosh.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b5c2b94c1833d3a3

    Bryan Oakley wants "to declare a proc in a namespace, but have
    the body of the proc execute in a different namespace. AND... I want
    that body of code to have access to the proc paramterers."  This
    thread analyzes various approaches, including XOTcl.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d7d8206f2a4e1faa

    A Tk retail-level desktop application receives rather public attention.
	http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=722752

    Insight about dealing with Tcl objects in a multithreaded enviroment,
    including the dangers of "shallow" vs "deep" copying.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b4a7beae24ed303
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3881

    Humans seem likely to have achieved a polynomial-complexity
    primality test.
        http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.pdf


Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/scripting/      

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/969

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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